Who is your fallback !!
People help you the way they know to help you. To help you to come out of stress, one friend will ask you to drink and another will ask you to meditate.
To overcome hurt, one friend will ask you to take revenge and get even, and another will ask you to forgive and get ahead with your life. ‘Who is your fallback’ makes all the difference.
Duryodhana’s predicament, in his own words, was, “I know what is right but I am not able to indulge in it. I know what is wrong but I am not able to avoid it.” He needed a fallback. His fallback was his uncle Shakuni, and resultantly, Duryodhana moved from bad to worse.
Arjuna’s predicament was different. He was allowing his personal emotions to dominate his sense of duty, and hence wanted to escape from the responsibilities he had towards upholding righteousness. He needed a fallback. His fallback was Krishna, and resultantly, Arjuna was restored to his greatness.
Humans we are, at some point or the other, we all need a fallback. ‘Who is your fallback’ makes all the difference..
Choose Well..!!
From Mahabharata..
Karna asks Krishna
My mother left me the moment I was born. Is it my fault I was born an illegitimate child?
I did not get education from Dhronacharya because I was considered a non Kshatriya.
Parshuram taught me but then gave me the curse to forget everything since I was a kshatriya.
A cow was accidentally hit by my arrow & its owner cursed me for no fault of mine.
I was disgraced in Draupadi's swayamvar.
Even Kunti finally told me the truth only to save her other sons.
Whatever I received was through Dhuryodhana's charity. So how am I wrong in taking his side?
Krishna replies
Karna, I was born in a jail.
Death was waiting for me even before my birth.
The night I was born I was separated from my birth parents.
From childhood you grew up hearing the noise of swords, chariots, horses, bow and arrows.
I got only cow herd's shed, dung and multiple attempts on my life even before I could walk!
No army, no education.
I could hear people saying I am the reason for all their problems.
When all of you were being appreciated for your valour by your teachers, I had not even received any education.
I joined gurukula of Rishi Sandipani only at the age of 16!
You are married to a girl of your choice.
I didn't get the girl I loved & rather ended up marrying those who wanted me or the ones I rescued from demons.
I had to move my whole community from the banks of Yamuna to far off Sea shore, to save them from Jarasandh. I was called a coward for running away.
If Dhuryodhana wins the war you will get lot of credit.
What do I get if Dharmaraja wins the war? Only the blame for the war and all related problems.
Remember one thing Karna..
Everybody has challenges in life.
*LIFE IS NOT FAIR ON ANYBODY..*
Dhuryodhan also has a lot of unfairness in life and so has Yudhishthir.
But what is Right (Dharma) is known to your Mind (Conscience)....
No matter how much unfairness we got, how many times we were disgraced, how many times we were denied what was due to us, what is important is how you REACTED at that time...
Stop whining Karna.
Life's unfairness does not give you license to walk the wrong path of *अधर्म.*
UNDERSTANDING KRISHNA
Man's mind has always wanted to choose between the seeming opposites. His mind has always divided existence into two parts and chose one part against the other. And from choice arises duality, which brings conflict and pain .
One who chooses will always be incomplete because the part he choose will continue to delude him and the part he denies will continue to pursue and haunt him. He can never be rid of what he rejects and represses.
Nothing in life has to be denied it's place and given up. We have to accept and live life in its totality. And one who lives wholly attains to life's wholeness.
A defensive mind, cannot gather that strength and enthusiasm necessary to win.
Our country was enslaved for a full thousand years just because of our incapacity to fight war. Similarly, our five thousand year old poverty and degradation is nothing but the result of a lack of courage and fearlessness in our lives, a lack of expansiveness in our hearts and minds.
So, after Mahabharata, for five thousand years we have been a frightened people, frightened for our lives. And a community that is afraid of death, afraid of war, eventually begins to be afraid of life itself. We are really trembling with fear. We are neither alive nor dead, we art just in limbo.
In my view, mankind will suffer if they accept what Russell and Gandhi say. There is no need to be afraid of war. But it is true we have reached a point where war on this earth has become meaningless.
War is meaningful so long as one side wins and another losses, but in a nuclear war there will be no victor and no vanquished. It is easy to understand warmongers like Genghis, Tamerlane, Hitler and Mussolini, because they believe in war as only way of life. Pacifiers like Gandhi and Russell believe that peace alone is the right way.
Krishna is altogether different from both of them, and that is what makes him difficult to understand. He says that life passes through both doors, of peace and war. And he says that if man wants to maintain peace, he needs to have the strength and ability to fight a war and win it. And he asserts that in order to fight a war well, it is necessary, simultaneously, to make due preparations for peace.
We would not have been that impotent if our country had understood Krishna rightly. But we have covered all our ugliness with beautiful words. Our cowardice is hidden behind our talk of non-violence . Our fear of death is disguised by our opposition to war. And this refusal of war simply became an invitation to others to wage war on us. War will not disappear just because we refuse to fight. Our refusal will only result in our slavery. And this is what has actually happened.
War and peace are twin limbs of life, and we can't do without either of them. How can a man walk one leg alone? No progress is possible.
Now to end friends I'll mention a historical contest that happened about three hundred years agop when countries of Europe where rushing toward Asia - because occupation is Asia had become immensely important for the expansionist power of Europe. But it has no importance whatsoever, and so, soon after the second world war, they left Asia. The people of Asia believe they won their freedom through their nationalist struggle, but it is only a half truth, the other half is quite different.
In our life, all that is good, beatiful and true, can be lived and known, but it is very difficult to define and talk about. The misfortune is that, in which we should have been living, which is actually meant to live, has been only talked about.
We all talk and discuss about love, we sing love songs...but love itself has no place in our life. If we search deep within ourselves, we will find that no other word used by us is more false than - LOVE.
It is we human who have turned this nectar of love into poision... and the major culprits are the so called the teachers..., the religious people. We are the product of a culture that is thousands of years old, but we humans are being blamed for being wrong, not the culture. Our culture are being praised...our great culture...our great religion... Though we are the fruit of it, but NO..!! we are wrong and we should change...!! WHY..?? It is quit surprising no one among us dare to stand and question whether the culture and the religion that have failed to fill we human with love in all these thousands of years might themselves be wrong somewhere...?
And if love hasn't evolved in the past, then what is the possibility, based on this same culture and religion, that love will ever fill human in the future..?
Love is within us, it does not have to be brought in and searched from somewhere. It is there within us. The search for love, the discipline of love is not something that we can go somewhere and learn. The love is hidden inside we human beings, it only needs to be released.
Love is our intrinsic nature. The problem is not how to cultivate love....but to investigate...What is the cause of hindrance..? The difficulties..? The barriers..?
Raja-yoga is the process to attain the Divine by ignighting the flame of knowledge of self within. And for so, the seeker should develop strong willpower through relentless practices of concentration and meditation on self, through Pranayam and Asana and an uncompromising austerity and self-control, i.e will.
According to Raja-yoga, in its guidelines for reaching the goal of self-realization - focusing the mind on the same object for twelve seconds achives one unit of concentration; twelve such units of concentration (2-min 24-sec) make one unit of meditation; twelve such successive units of meditation (28-min 48-sec) make one unit of lower samadhi; twelve such successive units of lower samadhi (5-hrs 48-min 36-sec) leads to asamprajnata samadhi (the highest samadhi), the final spiritual & goal.
Success in raja-yoga depends on the moral fitness and earnestness of the seeker.
For more details one can go through the PATANJALI , the founder of raja-yoga.
